I'd prefer to post-pone til after the 4.11 release. Hiding the global variable has apparently broken many user's expected way of using the shell. That it happened as a side-effect of other shell improvements made the 'break' not apparent. At least, if we do "revert" the revert, an explanation and example should accompany the release notes.
-Gedare On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: > Wooo this was a little fast. I do sleep. :) > > I would like my question answered on the user answered. > > I never liked the global in the first place and still do not. > > Chris > > > On 29/05/2014 2:05 am, Sebastian Huber wrote: >> >> Module: rtems >> Branch: master >> Commit: 5f0ab5cfb5aa04cd08b06a43e8258253703e95ea >> Changeset: >> http://git.rtems.org/rtems/commit/?id=5f0ab5cfb5aa04cd08b06a43e8258253703e95ea >> >> Author: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> >> Date: Wed May 28 17:17:29 2014 +0200 >> >> shell: Make rtems_global_shell_env public >> >> Provide rtems_global_shell_env as a public read-only variable for >> backward compatibility. >> >> --- >> >> cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.c | 2 +- >> cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.h | 2 ++ >> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.c b/cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.c >> index 8666299..0f31f2a 100644 >> --- a/cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.c >> +++ b/cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.c >> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ >> #include <pthread.h> >> #include <assert.h> >> >> -static rtems_shell_env_t rtems_global_shell_env = { >> +const rtems_shell_env_t rtems_global_shell_env = { >> .magic = rtems_build_name('S', 'E', 'N', 'V'), >> .devname = CONSOLE_DEVICE_NAME, >> .taskname = "SHGL", >> diff --git a/cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.h b/cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.h >> index af09ac3..76b34c7 100644 >> --- a/cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.h >> +++ b/cpukit/libmisc/shell/shell.h >> @@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ bool rtems_shell_main_loop( >> rtems_shell_env_t *rtems_shell_env >> ); >> >> +extern const rtems_shell_env_t rtems_global_shell_env; >> + >> rtems_shell_env_t *rtems_shell_get_current_env(void); >> #define rtems_current_shell_env rtems_shell_get_current_env() >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rtems-vc mailing list >> rtems...@rtems.org >> http://www.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-vc >> > _______________________________________________ > rtems-devel mailing list > rtems-devel@rtems.org > http://www.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-devel _______________________________________________ rtems-devel mailing list rtems-devel@rtems.org http://www.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-devel